| MISB Overview Presentation |  |
The MISB |
| In 2000, the NGA Innovision Directorate stood up the Motion Imagery Standards Board (MISB), effectively establishing an official standards body responsible for reviewing and recommending standards for motion imagery, associated metadata, audio and other related systems for use within the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and United States Imagery and Geospatial System (DoD/IC/USIGS).
Motion Imagery is recognized by the Intelligence and Defense communities as a vital part of our current and future intelligence picture. As our ability to collect motion imagery and achieve persistent surveillance continues to grow, ensuring interoperability of motion imagery formats with other types of sensor outputs, and making that critical intelligence available to those who need to know becomes increasingly important. |
Standards-Based Motion Imagery Workflow |
| Standards greatly increase the value of information. By providing an underlying "common language" for the sharing of information, standards foster breadth in knowledge and depth in intelligence. Nowhere are standards more crucial in realizing this added value than within the acquisition, processing, exploitation, and dissemination workflow processes for motion imagery rich-media assets.
Establishing standards for motion imagery encoding, metadata schemas and dissemination protocols in conjunction with compliance enforcement and testing helps prevent the proliferation of proprietary, stovepipe systems that are not interoperable. Stovepipe solutions impede the intelligence PED process and minimize the intelligence value derived from our nation’s Motion Imagery (MI) assets. The MISB’s mission is to unify the motion imagery workflow, effectively maximizing the value of MI assets for all stakeholders. Architecting the PED workflow within a standards-based foundation and guiding the development, acquisition, and implementation of tools, technologies and processes will position our Community to create solutions that have far greater value for the warfighter. |
Working Groups |
| Advanced Compression Working Group (ACWG) |
| Serves to identify and recommend commercially standardized motion imagery compression technologies for the DoD and the Intelligence Community.
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| Advanced Motion Imagery Working Group (AMIWG) |
| Addresses advanced motion imagery as a key enabling technology and supports the development of advanced motion imagery standards, Recommended Practices (RP) and Engineering Guidelines (EG) for advanced motion imagery collection, processing, exploitation, display and dissemination. |
| Format Working Group (FWG) |
| Provides direction and leadership in the development of RPs and EGs for utilizing commercially available technologies and protocols to ensure suitability to and compliance with Community requirements. |
| Infrared Working Group (IRWG) |
| Develops standards and RPs that support infrared motion imagery collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination. |
| Interoperability Working Group (IWG) |
| Develops and mediates RPs and EGs to help ensure interoperability of motion imagery systems and products in commercial and Government arenas for the DoD and Intelligence Communities. |
| Interpretability, Quality, and Metrics Working Group (IQMWG) |
| The principal focus of the Interpretability, Quality, and Metrics Working Group (IQMWG) is to address the interpretability, quality and metrics (IQM) of motion imagery. |
| Metadata Working Group (MWG) |
| Develops RPs and EGs that foster metadata harmonization among motion imagery systems, leading to easily accessed, accurate motion imagery data that can be exploited by a wide range of users. |
| Motion Imagery Tradecraft Working Group (MITWG) |
| A collaborative government/industry working group focused on the challenges of collection, storing, retrieving, processing and analyzing large volumes of motion imagery for the development of intelligence and for the support of military operations. |
